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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2721
Author: Pan (D), et al.
Amended: 8/20/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 4-0, 6/25/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Hancock, Huff
NO VOTE RECORDED: Block, Correa, Monning
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-0, 8/14/14
AYES: De León, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters, Gaines
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 5/27/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : California State University Trustees
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill expands the membership of the California
State University (CSU) Board of Trustees (BOT), by requiring the
Governor to appoint to the Board, a permanent non-faculty
employee, as specified.
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/20/14 add double-jointing language
in order to avoid chaptering out issues with AB 2324 (Williams).
ANALYSIS : Under existing law the CSU BOT is comprised of, at
any time, 25 members as follows:
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Five ex-officio members: (a) the Governor, (b) the Lieutenant
Governor, (c) Speaker of the Assembly, (d) the Superintendent
of Public Instruction, and (e) the Chancellor of the CSU.
Sixteen Governor Appointees confirmed by two-thirds of the
Senate, each serving an eight-year term.
One alumni association representative, who cannot be an
employee of the CSU, appointed by the Governor serving a
two-year term.
One tenured CSU faculty representative appointed by the
Governor, for a two-year term, from a list of names of at
least two persons furnished by the CSU Academic Senate. The
faculty member cannot participate on any subcommittees of the
CSU BOT responsible for collective bargaining negotiations.
Two CSU students appointed by the Governor for staggered
two-year terms from a list of nominees furnished by the
governing CSU BOT of any statewide student organization that
represents CSU students and the student body organizations of
the CSU campuses. Only one student is eligible to vote at any
time.
This bill expands the membership of the CSU BOT to 26 members.
Specifically this bill:
1.Requires the Governor to appoint the permanent non-faculty
employee from a list of at least two nominees provided by a
system-wide staff council of permanent non-faculty who is not
in a management personnel plan, a confidential classification,
or an excluded classification, to be appointed by the Governor
to serve on the CSU BOT for a two-year term.
2.Requires that the employee organizations fund a system-wide
staff council established by the bill's provisions.
3.Prohibits the permanent non-faculty CSU BOT member from
participating on any subcommittee of the board responsible for
collective bargaining negotiations.
4.Requires that the term of office for the permanent non-faculty
CSU BOT member begin July 1, and expire June 30, two years
thereafter.
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5.Provides that the permanent non-faculty employee member of the
CSU BOT shall receive compensation for CSU BOT service only as
authorized.
6.Contains double-jointing language with AB 2324 (Williams).
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Selection: potentially significant workload to the CSU to
create an independent system-wide staff council to nominate
employees for the BOT; potentially significant costs to the
employee organizations of permanent non-faculty employees of
CSU to fund the council.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/21/14)
California State University Employees Union
OPPOSITION : (Verified 8/21/14)
California State University
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 5/27/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández,
Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi,
Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Perea, John A. Pérez, V.
Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas,
Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron,
Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Patterson, Quirk-Silva, Vacancy
PQ:e 8/21/14 Senate Floor Analyses
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SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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